Lt Gen. Bhopinder Singh (Retd)[email protected]'s experience is a stark warning for India i.e., when a private satellite network becomes indispensable to military operations, the power to keep it running, or switch it off, becomes a strategic lever.Advertisement The controversy surrounding Elon Musk's Starlink services in Ukraine should set alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. It is not merely a dispute over commercial terms of service. It exposes a fundamental reality – when a nation relies on a privately controlled foreign communications network for critical operations, it risks surrendering strategic autonomy to those who control the switch.For India, which faces a…